Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free (Hardcover)

from schwager

This was a very enjoyable book. I appreciated that this book offered the often overlooked English perspective. This is one of the few books that i have read which seamlessly intertwines both perspectives. In addition, Ferling does a great job of balancing profiles with events. Oftentimes authors ...

from linedog1848

I received this book in hardcover from LT Early Reviewers. As an amateur photographer, one of the most challenging things to do is take an interesting photograph of a famous place. When something has been photographed thousands of times over, it becomes incredibly difficult to produce something n...

from sgtbigg

John Ferling is extremely knowledgeable concerning the American War of Independence and has written several good books about it. This is another in that line. Here he covers the period between the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence describing for the reader the events on both si...

from Angelic55blonde

Having my master's degree in history, I have studied the struggle for independence fairly extensively and John Ferling has always stood out as an excellent historian, and writer, of this time period. I was excited to read this book by him and I wasn't disappointed. In John Ferlling's own words, "...

from dsha67

Finished Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling. A remarkable study on short period from 1763 to the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, which in 1773 was anything but inevitable. The book by discusses the events which antecedents the emotional and finally to a pol...